Maple Bay Copper Veins, Portland Canal, Burniston Range Mtns, Stewart, BC
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ASSESSMENT REPORT TITLE PAGE AND SUMMARY TITLE OF REPORT: Technical Report on the Maple Bay Copper Veins, Portland Canal, Burniston Range Mtns, Stewart, BC TOTAL COST: $74682 AUTHOR(S): Hardolph Wasteneys SIGNATURE(S): NOTICE OF WORK PERMIT NUMBER(S)/DATE(S): STATEMENT OF WORK EVENT NUMBER(S)/DATE(S ): 5696348. May 5, 2018; YEAR OF WORK: 2018 PROPERTY NAME: Maple Bay CLAIM NAME(S) (on which work was done): 1058887 Coastal Copper COMMODITIES SOUGHT: Copper, Silver, Gold MINERAL INVENTORY MINFILE NUMBER(S),IF KNOWN: 103O-018; 103O-019; 103O-009; 103P-242; 103P-040; 103P-043; 103P-048 MINING DIVISION: Omineca NTS / BCGS: 103P-08, 103O-05 LATITUDE: 55°26’N LONGITUDE: 130°00’W (at centre of work) UTM Zone: 9 EASTING:435720 E NORTHING: 6143505 N OWNER(S): Rich River Exploration Inc MAILING ADDRESS: Violet Road, Grindrod, British Columbia OWNER(S): Craig Lynes MAILING ADDRESS: PO Box 131, Grindrod, BC, V0E 1Y0 REPORT KEYWORDS: Maple Bay, Anyox Pendant, chalcopyrite, pyrrohotite, quartz veins, Gabbros, N- MORB, Hazelton Group, Coast Plutonic Complex REFERENCES TO PREVIOUS ASSESSMENT WORK AND ASSESSMENT REPORT NUMBERS: Kikauka (2014) 34897. 32387, 37021, 30152, 24681 TYPE OF WORK IN EXTENT OF WORK ON WHICH CLAIMS PROJECT COSTS THIS REPORT (in metric units) APPORTIONED (incl. support) GEOLOGICAL (scale, area) 1:500 200 ha 1058887 60000 Ground, mapping Photo interpretation 1:2,000 GEOPHYSICAL (line-kilometres) Magnetic Electromagnetic Induced Polarization Radiometric Seismic Other Airborne GEOCHEMICAL (number of samples analysed for …) 4 1058887 1000 Soil Silt 19 1058887 1000 Rock Other talus fines 30 ha 12682 PROSPECTING (scale/area) PREPATORY / PHYSICAL Line/grid (km) Topo/Photogrammetric (scale, area) Legal Surveys (scale, area) Road, local access (km)/trail Trench (number/metres) Underground development (metres) Other TOTAL 74682 COST Page 2 of 2 Technical Report on the MAPLE BAY Copper Veins, Portland Canal, Burniston Range, Stewart District, British Columbia Latitude: 55° 26’ N, Longitude: 137° 00’ W UTM 436720 m E, 6143505 m N, Z.9 NAD83 for Craig Lynes Rich River Explorations Ltd. PO Box 131; Violet Road Grindrod, British Columbia, Canada V0E 1Y0 by Hardolph Wasteneys, Ph.D., P.Geo. Strathcona Park Lodge, Upper Campbell Lake, Campbell River, BC Date: September 20, 2018 Frontispiece Looking down Princess Creek Canyon from 800 meters west across the Portland Canal. A freighter is sailing south from Stewart carrying concentrates from the Pretium Resources Brucejack Mine in NW BC Table of Contents SSummaryummary . 1 IIntroductionntroduction . 2 PPropertyroperty DDescriptionescription aandnd LLocationocation . 3 AAccessibility,ccessibility, CClimate,limate, LLocalocal RResources,esources, IInfrastructurenfrastructure & PPhysiographyhysiography . 8 AACCESSIBILITYCCESSIBILITY ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................8 CCLIMATELIMATE ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................8 LLOCALOCAL RRESOURCESESOURCES ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................8 IINFRASTRUCTURENFRASTRUCTURE ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................9 PPHYSIOGRAPHYHYSIOGRAPHY ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................9 SSUITABILITYUITABILITY FFOROR MMININGINING OOPERATIONSPERATIONS ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................9 PPreviousrevious WWorkork aandnd HHistoryistory . 10 CCurrenturrent EExplorationxploration . 20 FFieldield TTraversesraverses ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................20 GGeochemicaleochemical AnalysesAnalyses ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................27 GGeologicaleological SSettingetting aandnd MMineralizationineralization . 29 RREGIONALEGIONAL GGEOLOGYEOLOGY ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................29 GGeologyeology ofof tthehe MMapleaple BayBay areaarea ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................33 LLithogeochemistryithogeochemistry ofof MapleMaple BayBay rocksrocks ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................35 SSoiloil GGeochemistryeochemistry ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................40 MMapleaple BayBay VeinsVeins ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................41 BBluelue BBellell 103P-242103P-242 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................41 CComstockomstock 1103P-04003P-040 ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................41 FFridayriday 1103O-00903O-009 ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................42 OOutsiderutsider 1103O-01803O-018 StarStar 103O-019103O-019 ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................42 PPrincessrincess 1103P-04803P-048 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................42 IInterpretationnterpretation aandnd CConclusionsonclusions . 44 RRecommendationsecommendations . 45 RRecommendedecommended BudgetBudget ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................46 RReferenceseferences . 47 AAppendixppendix AA:: SStatementtatement ooff WWorkork aandnd CCostsosts . 50 AAppendixppendix BB:: FFieldield GGeologyeology DDataata . 52 AAppendixppendix CC:: GGeochemicaleochemical DDataata . 58 TTableable 5:5: MMapleaple BayBay RockRock GeochemicalGeochemical AnalysesAnalyses ........................................................................................................................................................................................58 AAppendixppendix DD:: CCertificateertificate ooff QQualifiedualified PPersonerson . 76 Maple Bay - Assessment Report v Hardolph Wasteneys PhD, PGeo. List of Figures FFigureigure 11:: LLocationocation MapMap - MapleMaple BayBay PropertyProperty ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................4